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On the recordDecember 16, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 398 Leg.] YEAS--76 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine King Lankford Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--6 Braun Carper Enzi Gillibrand Lee Paul NOT VOTING--18 Bennet Booker Cassidy Daines Duckworth Graham Harris Isakson Kennedy Klobuchar Markey Merkley Perdue Sanders Sasse Toomey Warren Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 6.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 16, 2019

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